Between
1994- 2011 Andy Hirst was involved in filming and sound recording
birds on several continents for BirdGuides
Ltd. Planning and executing filming trips to the United States,
Canada, Israel and throughout the UK, filming target species for BirdGuides
products and archive of bird footage. Originally using Hi 8 and progressing
to Mini DV, with experience of Digi-Beta SP & 35mm film. Because
BirdGuides was a small company, Andy undertook many roles involved with
video, DVD & CD/ DVD-ROM production. From planning and filming the
initial footage, to logging, clipping, processing and editing the video
& sounds, to outputting to CD-ROM/ DVD or the web, as well as compiling
products & overseeing their production s Production Manager.

Now, using
this experience Gone Birding can from concept to final edited
product, undertake commissions for short films or specific wildlife
footage and output to a variety of formats, with video suitable for
Apps, DVD, Mobile platforms, Websites or for Broadcast.
We specialise in filming wildlife and especially birds, using years
of experience and expertise.

We have
the latest equipment for wildlife filming being relatively light and
portable, with broadcast quality images, as well as a digital computer
based editing suite. With excellent knowledge and experience of UK &
European birds we can undertake commissions to film specific birds in
habitat, or capture desired behaviour. We use Apples editing, sound
production and DV authoring software Final Cut Pro on a fast
Mac.

We are
currently working on several projects, filming wildlife for use in a
range of new, upcoming products. Watch this space! Visit our Sales page
Sample Video below